Deep in the canyon, there was deathly silence, except for the suppressed breathing and slight footsteps of Xuan and his party.
The Source-Core Scaffold in his body is like a greedy heart, methodically stripping away the remaining energy of Divine Tree and turning it into its own use.
With each pulse, the Six Paths reincarnation pattern in the right eye Mangekyō Sharingan becomes clearer, and the sense of power to control all things can now be maintained stably for a full minute.
"Something's wrong." Saori's voice broke the silence. She stopped, the tip of her nose moved slightly, and her expression was solemn. "There is the smell of spores in the air... It's very faint, but it keeps following us, like some kind of mark."
Xuan nodded slightly, looking through the darkness in front of him, calmly as if stating an established fact. "Green Husk is here. Divine Tree is the last guardian and its purest hatred."
Before he finished speaking, the earth suddenly let out a dull mournful cry!
Boom--!
The hard rocky ground exploded without warning, sending gravel and soil flying everywhere.
A dark green figure suddenly sprang out from it, carrying a strange aura of decay and rebirth, and instantly locked onto Baba Tesshin in the team.
It was a humanoid creature covered in twisted vines, with skin like the skin of an old tree, and thick green sap flowing from its shriveled eye sockets.
It has no mouth, but it seems to be able to emit a soul-piercing scream.
It is Green Husk!
As soon as it appeared, it didn't pause at all. It kicked its limbs on the ground, and its body turned into a blurry green shadow, so fast that it couldn't even catch the afterimage!
Baba Tesshin felt a gust of evil wind blowing against his face. He subconsciously raised his arms to block, only to hear a harsh tearing sound. The special shoulder armor he was proud of was easily torn apart like paper by the opponent's sharp claws like dead branches. Five bone-deep claw marks were imprinted on his shoulders!
"Be careful!" Saori shouted sharply, his fingers flying.
Several puppets hidden in the sleeves popped out instantly, and the sharp steel wires were like a dragnet, accurately wrapping around Green Husk's neck. As Saori pulled hard, the huge pulling force instantly tore his head off from his torso!
However, before the joy on Baba Tesshin's face appeared, it was replaced by boundless horror.
At the broken neck, green flesh and blood squirmed like a living thing, and countless new shoots grew wildly. In just one second, an identical head was knitted again!
"Cut... can't you kill him?!" Baba Tesshin covered the wound and staggered back, his eyes filled with disbelief.
What kind of monster is this!
"It's not immortality."
Xuan's voice was as cold as ice, without a trace of ripples.
He stood there, as if the strange scene in front of him had been expected, "Its chakra circuit has been deeply coupled with the photosynthesis of plants. As long as there is energy, it can theoretically be regenerated infinitely."
While he was explaining, the Mangekyō Sharingan in his right eye was quietly rotating, his pupil power was pushed to the extreme, and he activated his unique pupil analysis technique - [Myriad Phenomena Return to the Eye]!
In an instant, the entire world turned into lines composed of energy flow and information in his eyes.
Green Husk's seemingly indestructible body had its internal structure peeled off layer by layer.
He clearly saw that in the middle of the spine of the body made of vines and flesh, there was a "light core" about the size of a fist that was beating violently. That was the source of all its energy and the core of its energy resonance with Divine Tree!
"Its weakness is not its body, but the light." Xuan whispered to himself, with a cold arc at the corner of his mouth, "As long as the light source is cut off, it will be a pile of wood waiting to rot."
As soon as he finished speaking, he quickly Hand Seals his hands, and a ball of violent lightning condensed in his palms.
"Lightning Release·Thunder Dust Explosion!"
However, this powerful ninjutsu did not hit Green Husk, but hit the rock wall above the canyon at a tricky angle!
Rumble--!
Amidst the deafening loud noise, the mountain shook violently, and large areas of rocks collapsed. It was like the sky collapsed, instantly sealing the canyon passage hundreds of meters away.
The sunlight was completely cut off, and the entire space fell into absolute darkness where you couldn't even see your fingers!
The light disappeared.
Green Husk's movements became visibly slower, and the regeneration speed of the tiny wounds on the body suddenly dropped by more than 70%!
Darkness deprives it of the energy it needs to survive!
"Now!"
Xuan seized this fleeting opportunity and Hand Seals his hands again. This time, the Indian style was more complicated and mysterious.
He forcibly fused the cutting power of Wind Release and the high-frequency paralysis of Lightning Release in an incredible way.
"Wind Lightning Release·Sound of Chaotic Cycles!"
An invisible, high-frequency shock wave spread out with Xuan as the center, accurately targeting Green Husk.
This force did not cause physical damage, but was like the most exquisite scalpel, forcibly interfering with the already chaotic chakra circulation rhythm in Green Husk's body.
"Ho--!"
Green Husk let out a silent roar from the depths of his soul, suddenly fell to his knees, and his whole body twitched violently.
The light core at its spine flashed crazily in the darkness, flickering on and off, like a candle in the wind.
Xuan stepped forward slowly, every step seemed to be stepping on the drumbeat of death.
He came to the struggling Green Husk and slowly raised his right hand.
In the palm of his hand, space began to distort, and a gravitational field as black as ink appeared out of thin air, exuding a terrifying suction that swallowed everything.
"Micro Gravitational Collapse!"
This is his original move that combines the power of Rinnegan!
The terrifying gravitational force instantly enveloped Green Husk. The huge Divine Tree chakra that escaped from its body due to circulatory disorder was like a torrent that had found a vent. It was madly sucked and swallowed by the dark gravitational field, and finally merged into Xuan's right eye!
At the same time, a series of cold system prompts rang loudly in his mind:
"Warning: High concentration of Divine Tree symbiote energy detected... Capture begins!"
"Capture successful! Unlock Divine Tree symbiote gene template ×1!"
"Analysis completed! Unlock a new evolutionary path: 'Photosynthetic Chakra Reversal'!"
"Warning: A high-level encrypted signal was found in the absorbed energy flow... analyzing...Kaguya seal coordinates related signal was found!"
In the process of being endlessly devoured, Green Husk's huge body withered and shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye. The green vines turned into blackened charcoal bars, and the vibrant flesh and blood turned into withered ashes.
In the end, it completely turned into a carbonite statue that maintained a kneeling posture. As a breeze blew by, it shattered into pieces and turned into dust on the ground.
The battle ended neatly.
At this moment, a rush of footsteps and the sound of a cane hitting the ground came from behind.
The old Zen monk caught up with him out of breath. He looked at Green Husk that had turned into powder.
"Master Xuan, this is the last secret message left by Sage of Six Paths for the 'Terminator'." The old monk's voice trembled with a hint of fate, "He said that only those who truly swallow the divine root and carry its will can break this seal."
Xuan took the scroll and touched it with his fingertips. The ancient scroll spontaneously ignited without fire. The green flames licked the surface of the scroll and burned away the seal on the surface. A line of twisted and ancient words emerged:
"On the other side of the moon, the mother's coffin is not closed."
Xuan looked at this line of words, and the curve of his mouth became more and more playful. "So that's it... she always thought that someone would save her." He laughed softly, with a trace of undisguised ambition and sarcasm in his laughter, "Unfortunately, I didn't go here to let her out."
The team started again. Before leaving, Xuan glanced at an inconspicuous young man in the corner - Ban Jing.
The young man was holding tightly a leaf that had fallen from Green Husk's body. The leaf that should have withered was actually glowing slightly in his palm at this moment, as if it had some strange resonance with the blood in his body.
Xuan calmly withdrew his gaze, but he had already placed a special mark on this young man in his heart.
A hybrid vessel that naturally carries the adaptability of Divine Tree, with the diluted power of Kaguya flowing in its blood, may become a "bait" against that Rabbit Goddess in the future, or even... a perfect "graft body".
He looked up at the sky obscured by the rock wall, as if he could penetrate the rock formations and see the bright moon hanging in the night.
The phantom of reincarnation in the right eye flashed for the last time before the pupil power was exhausted, and then quickly disappeared.
"Your roots are in my stomach." He whispered to himself, his voice was so soft that only he could hear it, "Your coffin will soon be mine."
And in the distant shadow of the earth, a new crow quietly fluttered its wings into the sky.
This time, its eyes are no longer the purple samsara that symbolizes the realm of God, but a pair of cold, scarlet eyes that reflect the three Tomoe and Sharingan.
The wind seems to have changed.
Shinobi World The wind no longer only carries the fragrance of forest vegetation, but also begins to be mixed with the faint smell of sand and rust blowing from the distant border.
It was a dry, violent wind, heralding a completely different land, where the rules were written by yellow sand and storms, where national boundaries were blurred in the endless sand dunes and howling winds.